Earth’s Cryosphere, 2022, Vol. XXVI, No. 1, p. 57-59

A HIGH HONOR AWARDED TO PERMAFROST SCIENTISTS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO RUSSIAN-GERMAN COOPERATION

O.I. Alekseeva¹, Anne Morgenstern²

1 Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Merzlotnaya str. 36, Yakutsk, 677010 Russia; o.i.alekseeva@mpi.ysn.ru
2 Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A45, Potsdam, 14473 Germany

Dr. Mikhail Nikolaevich Grigoriev, Deputy Director of the Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (MPI SB RAS),Yakutsk, Russia and Prof. Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten, former director of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) Research Unit Potsdam, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Potsdam, Germany) were awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the development of Russian–German cooperation in Arctic research. The ceremony of bestowal took place in the MPI’s conference hall in Yakutsk on October 6, 2021.

Russian–German scientific cooperation, Arctic, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany